Have you heard? – The fast news with Trevor Davies – March 2010
Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of March 2010 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below: Read More…
2004-2012 Statements
The Redfern Waterloo Authority operated until 2011-12 when it was taken over by the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority. Here we have captured some of that history as it happened in Redfern Wate
Editorial – SSH March 2010 – Homelessness
Twice a year the City’s Homelessness Unit conducts a Street Count. Last month 146 volunteers and 17 advisors worked through the night to count those in hostels and those sleeping rough throughout the City of Sydney area says the editorial in the South Sydney Herald of March 2010. Read More…
Redfern’s purple patch
The new Purple Goanna café on Redfern Street in Redfern is an impressive establishment. Susie, Corey and Bianca offer first-class hospitality – and the coffee is smooth, delicious. I’m quite fussy when it comes to coffee, and I definitely recommend the Goanna blend reports John Lanzky in the South S Read More…
Fighting for the village
An Erskineville community group says it will continue to campaign against over-development and big business, despite losing its battle against a new supermarket for the area. Friends Of Erskineville (FOE) member, Paul Howard, said: “Community groups are always formed around a specific issue … but Read More…
Festival in Surry Hills, 2010
The Surry Hills Neigbourhood Centre has announced that the Surry Hills Festival is returning to the Crown Street area for 2010 reports Robert Morrison in the South Sydney Herald of March 2010. Read More…
Souths pokies dispute “political”
It has been three years since members of the South Sydney Leagues Club have been able to enjoy a beer to the tinny drone of the Club’s 60 poker machines. Now in the twilight stages of a $13.75 million redevelopment, the Redfern-based club has been beleaguered by spats with City of Sydney councillors Read More…
Saving the Settlement
The Sydney University Settlement, also known as the Settlement, has received State Government funding that will help begin the long-awaited redevelopment of the Settlement Neighbourhood Centre hall reports Joel Pringle in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010.
Lion’s share of fundraising effort
The Redfern-Waterloo Lions Club raises money the old-fashioned way: with barbecues and bake sales, rather than hefty corporate donations. By mastering the art of the small gesture, the fledgling club has raised money for programs as diverse as the annual Yabun Aboriginal Festival, Lions Hearing Dogs Read More…
Indigenous Centre off to an excellent start
There was a buzz of excitement, with people meeting and greeting and looking around at the Open Day of the new National Centre for Indigenous Excellence in George Street, Redfern. The children were in the pool and watching in anticipation the arrival of the colourful inflatable which would challenge Read More…
Tempers flare over M5 into Tempe
Tempe residents are outraged by NSW Government plans to build an arterial road through Tempe Reserve as part of the M5 corridor expansion. The arterial surface road was announced in an RTA paper in December and aims to connect the M5 East Tunnel to the airport and the industrial areas of South Sydne Read More…